☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

We're sowing misery and chaos all over the world but it's for a good reason: so one senile moron can feel important and uhh lebensraum for data centers I guess

Yes, Trump is doing his best to start another catastrophic forever war in the mideast. But I still support him for his other policies, like the massive cuts to cancer research.

In 2008 Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic primary, and became president, for one reason: they'd supported the Iraq War, and he opposed it. I wonder if any 2028 Democratic hopefuls remember this.

Americans have a choice: You can vote for Republican presidents, who start giant catastrophic wars in the mideast, or you can vote for Democratic presidents, like Clinton with Iraq and Biden with Iran, who set the table for Republican presidents to start giant catastrophic wars in the mideast

Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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Ultra-violence is like a football covered in razor blades, bouncing through history forever and killing people in ways no human can foresee. That's why only the most vicious thugs initiate it.

Living in Manhattan below 14th St. in 2001, watching the World Trade Center on fire from 7th Avenue, and smelling the rotting bodies for months afterwards, gave me a hatred of ultra-violence and its perpetrators that I will possess for the rest of my life.

One reason I think Trump didn't bomb Iran to create democracy there is Trump's deep, bitter hatred of democracy in America

The Democrats will nominate a presidential candidate in 2028 who vociferously condemns Trump's war with Iran — by attacking Trump from the right for not "finishing the job"

Remember Winston Churchill called Iran's oil "a prize from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams." Hilarious for his blithe assumption that it belonged to the UK, and also for his not realizing that in every fairytale such enticing prizes come with a terrible curse for everyone.

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Epic Fury is actually the perfect name for Trump's attack on Iran. This isn't about nuclear weapons, or democracy, or whatever, but rather 50 years of the childish rage of American elites that Iran hasn't perfectly followed US orders.

time is a flat circle

The thing is, if AI actually works we will end up with five trillionaires constantly using it to try to assassinate each other, with everybody else caught in the crossfire

haha oh no

With the news that Larry Summers has resigned from Harvard, I'd like to point out that I've been a Summers hater since before it was cool. Here's a New Yorker humor piece from 1999 by Michael Gerber & me about his call to "dump a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country"

Good advice here from this spoon

I was thinking this, but I have no personal experience.

Via decades of trial and error, America's right-wing media has perfected the protective stupidity of Crimestop

What country/civilization has developed the best toilets and sewage systems? I feel like this is an area in which humans in general need to raise our game.

If Iran had nuclear weapons, Trump would currently be exchanging love letters with Ayatollah Khamenei

As we wait to find out if the US will attack Iran at the request of the Iranian people, let's remember a previous shining example of humanitarian intervention: Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. After being captured by the US in 2003, Saddam told the FBI Kuwaitis asked Iraq to liberate them.

YouTube video by South China Morning Post Chinese mountain to get escalators for ‘painless climbing experience’

China has built escalators for people to ride up a famous scenic mountain. Not only are the Chinese stealing America's manufacturing base, they're stealing our laziness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-N1...

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It's not that Iran "views" itself as having the right to enrich uranium as a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran DOES have that right. Just read the treaty. It's like the NY Times is saying "Iran views the earth as round."

In 2004 a Bush official explained the *real* reason for the Iraq war: We could not allow Saddam to "defy" America, because that could encourage other countries not to follow our orders. Iranian "defiance," & the way it might give other people ideas, will also be the reason for any war with Iran.

Trump's "case" for war with Iran is obviously totally incoherent. That's because he can't express the genuine reason we may attack Iran: Their government has defied us (ie, hasn't followed all of our orders exactly), and therefore must be punished.

Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson The Rev. Jesse Jackson's kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.

The punditocracy was always looking for a Black leader to replace Jesse Jackson, someone who could symbolize racial equality without the challenge to social hierarchy that would be necessary to achieve it.

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